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Last Exit to Brooklyn

The Novel That Shocked The World Is Now A Movie

1989 · 1 h 43 · Germany, United Kingdom · English

  • Drama

A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a family cannot cope with the fact that their daughter is illegitimately pregnant.

Directed by
Uli Edel
Written by
Desmond Nakano
Based on
Hubert Selby Jr.

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